U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities 2026-2027

U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities 2026-2027 by U.S. News & World Report: 50 universities ranked, led by Harvard University. The entries on...

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Harvard first, MIT second and Stanford third. Tsinghua rose to 6th from joint 11th in 2025-2026. Wikipedia reports 2,250 institutions from more than 100 countries were considered.

The list on record

This page shows the 50 entries on record. Top 50 with global scores. Loaded from xuanxiao.org's archive of U.S. News data (third-party mirror; U.S. News pages return 403 to automated fetches). The top 10 matches Wikipedia's list for this edition. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Score	Since 2025-2026
1	Harvard University	United States	100	No change
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	97	No change
3	Stanford University	United States	94.4	No change
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	88.1	No change
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	87.1	No change
6	Tsinghua University	China	86.5	Up 5
7	University of California, Berkeley	United States	86.4	Down 1
8	Yale University	United States	86	Up 1
9	University College London	United Kingdom	85.3	Down 2
10	Columbia University	United States	85	No change
11	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	84.8	Up 2
12	University of Washington	United States	84.4	Down 4
13	Cornell University	United States	84.2	Up 3
=14	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	83.9	Down 3
=14	Princeton University	United States	83.9	Up 2
16	National University of Singapore	Singapore	83.8	Up 4
=17	Johns Hopkins University	United States	83.4	Down 3
=17	University of Pennsylvania	United States	83.4	Down 2
19	Peking University	China	83.1
20	University of Toronto	Canada	82.8	Down 4
21	University of Michigan	United States	82.5
22	University of California, San Francisco	United States	82.1	Down 6
=23	California Institute of Technology	United States	81.6
=23	University of California San Diego	United States	81.6
25	University of Chicago	United States	81.3
26	Northwestern University	United States	80.7
27	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	80.4
=28	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	79.7
=28	The University of Melbourne	Australia	79.7
30	Duke University	United States	79.5
31	The University of Sydney	Australia	79
32	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	78.8
=33	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	78.6
=33	UNSW Sydney	Australia	78.6
35	Zhejiang University	China	78.1
36	New York University	United States	77.8
37	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	77.7
38	Monash University	Australia	77.6
39	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	77.5
40	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	77.2
41	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	76.9
=42	King's College London	United Kingdom	76.3
=42	University of British Columbia	Canada	76.3
=42	The University of Queensland	Australia	76.3
45	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	75.5
46	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	United States	75.3
47	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	75.1
48	KU Leuven	Belgium	75
49	Fudan University	China	74.9
50	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	74.8

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